The star currently appears in ‘Corrie’ as Robert Preston, but speaking on ‘Loose Women’, he admitted that he once went for the job of playing 007.

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Tristan Gemmill

When Coleen Nolan pointed at that fans on social media have said Tristan would make a fantastic Bond, he laughed and replied: “I have a feeling that that ship has sailed.”

“I did audition for it before Daniel Craig,” he then admitted. “When they saw pretty much every actor in England of a certain age who could walk upright.

“I went in and met the casting director, and I remember sitting in her office. Literally between us on her desk were piles and piles of DVDs of Ewan McGregor movies and Jude Law movies and Hugh Jackman movies. I could barely see her over these piles of DVDs.”

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His character recently provided Michelle Connor with a shoulder to cry on

“I thought, ‘Well what chance do I stand in that company?’”

For what it’s worth, we reckon Tristan would have made a fantastic Bond.